Quality training standards, training assessment providers and evaluation of employee training methods

Do you still offer Training?

If not, then with the UK legislation changes from April 2010, you may need to.

The new rights of approximately 11 million employees in Great Britain to request 'time to train'

will apply to all organisations with 250 employees or more, extending to all organisations from

6 April 2011.

In a climate of budget cuts and workforce redundancies, keeping such training activity going will continue to be difficult. In the short term, cutting training budgets is great for managing cash flow issues (51% of UK businesses have done just that), however, in the longer term, you can be left

with a reduction in capacity and loss of valuable knowledge and expertise - something that is needed if the economy is to climb back out of recession.

If you run in-house training these changes might mean: that you will continue to struggle to find

the budget to pay for an increasing number of training requests. The Board is likely to expect detailed reports about the links between the training you offer, the business needs, actual improvement in performance and return on investment. Alongside all of this, training delivery requirements will almost certainly increase and may even involve purchasing more external consultants.

If you are a training provider, you may well find yourself competing with a number of displaced trainers in an already crowded marketplace and be challenged to show potential clients how the services that you offer are the highest quality provision to win tenders.

Let OFQT help you achieve quality AND excellence

QUALITY STANDARDS

To improve the effectiveness of training management systems

LEARNING TOOLS

To enhance the learning and evaluation process

MASTERCLASSES

To resolve business needs through training and learning

Using our services means that you will be able to:

	Map your training systems against recognised quality standards and plan improvements
	Develop the kind of workforce attitude that is needed to embrace learning and change
	Meet business growth needs through the effective use of training and learning
	Support, advise and guide those in HR and training teams who help others to learn
	Evaluate the impact training has on performance and business bottom-line
	Manage complex situations by making sense of your organisational knowledge
	Improve, and quality assure, your training provision (external providers)

Must you really think about quality and excellence now?

Yes - if you are a private, global corporate, public, NGO or charity sector organisation with an internal training function or HR department that has to meet business needs and training requests

Yes - if you are an SME that provides training solutions and products or an independent

training consultant, mentor or coach that wants to increase their future business development

Yes - if you want to achieve continuous business and service improvement and obtain a badge

of quality or excellence that sets your apart from your competitors

Yes - if you need to ensure that the training services you purchase actually provide you with the

best value for money and impact on behavioural change

Yes - if you need to show your Board of Directors how the money invested in training makes

a real difference to organisational performance and the business bottom line

Yes - if you want you want be ready for the economic upturn with the necessary skills and knowledge to rebuild your market position and meet new legislative requirements

Next steps...

Review this website and discover the different ways that we at OFQT can help you to incorporate quality and excellence into the work that you do and the services that you provide.

Whether you are a sole trader, consultancy or large organisation CONTACT US to arrange a

no-obligation visit and discuss how to get started on your journey towards excellence and let your training make a difference.